Bram
- #2,421 for boys in 2025, 56 births
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 72 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,537since 1948
Bram over time
Rank among boys' names. Bram has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,421 | 56 |
| 2024 | #2,958 | 42 |
| 2023 | #3,055 | 40 |
| 2022 | #3,533 | 32 |
| 2021 | #2,918 | 42 |
| 2020 | #3,202 | 35 |
| 2019 | #3,201 | 36 |
| 2018 | #2,472 | 52 |
| 2017 | #2,417 | 53 |
| 2016 | #1,991 | 72 |
| 2015 | #2,565 | 48 |
| 2014 | #2,370 | 54 |
| 2013 | #2,299 | 55 |
| 2012 | #2,488 | 50 |
| 2011 | #3,046 | 37 |
| 2010 | #3,014 | 38 |
| 2009 | #3,105 | 37 |
| 2008 | #3,103 | 37 |
| 2007 | #3,250 | 34 |
| 2006 | #2,932 | 38 |
| 2005 | #2,325 | 50 |
| 2004 | #3,217 | 30 |
| 2003 | #2,507 | 41 |
| 2002 | #3,909 | 21 |
| 2001 | #3,410 | 25 |
| 2000 | #3,219 | 26 |
| 1999 | #3,986 | 18 |
| 1998 | #3,296 | 23 |
| 1997 | #2,396 | 34 |
| 1996 | #2,590 | 29 |
| 1995 | #3,020 | 23 |
| 1994 | #2,392 | 32 |
| 1993 | #3,368 | 19 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | #3,618 | 15 |
| 1988 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,891 | 17 |
| 1985 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #3,884 | 10 |
| 1982 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | #3,018 | 14 |
| 1978 | #3,400 | 11 |
| 1977 | #3,606 | 10 |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #2,288 | 19 |
| 1974 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #2,124 | 19 |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #4,136 | 5 |
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| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1964 | #4,039 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #3,425 | 6 |
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| 1951 | #3,714 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bram! It came in at #3,668, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1952, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Bram is popular in 2025
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- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| Utah | #703 | 5 | 1 in 3,933 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bram
- 781 spots since 2020 (#3,202 → #2,421)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 2016 at #1,991 (72 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 26,357 boys born in 2016 were named Bram (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,501 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.2% of all boys named Bram (495) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,668 (1948) | #3,668 |
| 1950s | 11 | #3,425 (1953) | #3,570 |
| 1960s | 26 | #3,537 (1965) | #4,013 |
| 1970s | 103 | #2,124 (1973) | #3,395 |
| 1980s | 99 | #2,891 (1986) | #3,987 |
| 1990s | 212 | #2,392 (1994) | #3,530 |
| 2000s | 339 | #2,325 (2005) | #3,098 |
| 2010s | 495 | #1,991 (2016) | #2,586 |
| 2020s | 247 | #2,421 (2025) | #3,015 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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